While the picture may make it seem like its chilly, the temperature was 98F degrees. Thunder storms and rain storms are scattered around the Powder River Basin as a eastbound loaded UP coal train charges down a hill to Bill Wyoming.
During the summer of 2011, my dad and I drove across eight states chasing trains. We went up through the Central Valley of California. Then over Donner Pass and the Northern Nevada Desert to Salt Lake City, UT. After that, we headed to Laramie, WY and the
